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Not a lot today, just some messy sketching :C Finals are coming up.
I checked out a book on rings the other day. Today, I sat down with it and read it through. It was really very interesting. I had to design some rings for a character from this comic. I was going to do two rings: a signet ring, that is, a ring used for stamping wax, and a poison ring, that is, a ring with a pillbox compartment for storing poison. But, today, I only had time to do the first. I’ll do the second some other time, maybe this month.
Did you know that signet rings are traditionally worn on your pinkie? Now you do :B And did you know that carnelian is a stone traditionally used for signet rings because it doesn’t stick to wax? Otherwise, you need to oil the stamp.
Hurr I sort of messed up the hand. And while I was starting to draw his head, I failed to predict that it would collide with the two band designs I’d sketched above. So it looks like he has a pair of horrific miniature tiaras. Oh well!
[media : micron 01, micron 005, sumi ink, watercolor, and gouache in cachet sketchbook (note to self: only do water-based media in a sketchbook meant for such things :C), scanned and edited in photoshop cs2.]
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